Failing Performance Validity Cutoffs on the Boston Naming Test (BNT) Is Specific, but Insensitive to Non-Credible Responding. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nussbaum, Shayna; May, Natalie; Cutler, Laura; Abeare, Christopher A; Watson, Mark; Erdodi, Laszlo A
• Is Part Of: Developmental neuropsychology. Volume 47:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 31
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Neuropsychology -- Periodicals; 612.8
• DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2022.2038602
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 8756-5641

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study was designed to examine alternative validity cutoffs on the Boston Naming Test (BNT). Archival data were collected from 206 adults assessed in a medicolegal setting following a motor vehicle collision. Classification accuracy was evaluated against three criterion PVTs. The first cutoff to achieve minimum specificity (.87-.88) was T ≤ 35, at .33-.45 sensitivity. T ≤ 33 improved specificity (.92-.93) at .24-.34 sensitivity. BNT validity cutoffs correctly classified 67–85% of the sample. Failing the BNT was unrelated to self-reported emotional distress. Although constrained by its low sensitivity, the BNT remains a useful embedded PVT.